create-skills.md

title	Creating agent skills for {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %}
shortTitle	Create agent skills
allowTitleToDifferFromFilename	true
intro	You can modify {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %}'s behavior and abilities when it works on particular tasks.
versions	feature copilot
contentType	how-tos
category	Configure Copilot Author and optimize with Copilot

Note

Agent skills work with {% data variables.copilot.copilot_coding_agent %}, the {% data variables.copilot.copilot_cli %} and agent mode in {% data variables.product.prodname_vscode %} Insiders. Support in the stable version of {% data variables.product.prodname_vscode_shortname %} is coming soon.

Agent skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} can load when relevant to improve its performance in specialized tasks. For more information, see AUTOTITLE.

{% data reusables.copilot.creating-adding-skills %}

How {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} uses agent skills

{% data reusables.copilot.skills-using %} {% data reusables.copilot.skills-compared %}